THERE is no stopping Corringham's Queen of Can-Do! Lucy Chipperfield has just spent three days cycling from London to Paris raising over £,2,000 for Little Havens Hospice.
IF you mention "Cover Bands" you immediately think of "Hi Ho Silver Lining", "Summer of '69" or "Stairway to Heaven" Nothing wrong with that but the members of Stanford-based Armada believed there is a gap in the market for a band that covers the Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon and Muse.
IT IS just like buses. A clean-up story doesn't appear for weeks and now we have three in a row! Sometimes, you try and make an editorial decision and ponder whether to just run one. Our decision was to profile each and every clean-up as evidence of the sterling work done by community groups around the borough.
Over the survey period 15,800 two way traffic movements were recorded. The London Road has a very high accident rate – 49 injury accidents in four years – that is over double the national average. The number of H.G.V.’s using the London Road is three times the national.
THURROCK'S MEP, David Campbell Bannerman has joined the fight to replace Lord Pearson as leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). The challenge for David will be to fight off the challenge of former leader Nigel Farage as well as promote a manifesto that will take the party to the next level.
Davy Down Trustees welcomed over 150 visitors to their Heritage Open Day this weekend. Visitors had a rare opportunity to go round the Essex and Suffolk Water Treatment works as well as the beautiful Stifford Pumping Station.
The Essex Fire Brigades Union has informed Essex County Fire and Rescue Service that the action - which will include a ban on overtime and a refusal to cover other staffing shortages – will start next Monday.
Cllr John Kent, Leader of Thurrock Council is inviting residents from Thurrock to come along to St Margaret’s Church,The Green, Stanford-le-Hope and ask questions of the leader, cabinet members and directors of the council.
Kenningtons Community Forum is holding its AGM on Monday 20th September starting at 7.30pm at the Aveley Methodist Church, Shannon Way, Kenningtons, Aveley.
Grays Athletic will travel to Bury St Edmunds to take on Ryman Premier's unbeaten outfit Bury Town. With five wins on the bounce, Grays look impressive and will no doubt see another tilt at superior opposition as an opportunity and not a problem.
IN JUST five minutes, we discussed phone-hacking, working at The Sun, punk-anarchist band Crass and having his house in South Ockendon raided as Motorhead acccused him of stealing their on-stage bomber!
At 7.45pm on Sunday, September 12, suspects approached the victim from behind and grabbed her bag from her shoulder. The bag had cash, a purse and a mobile phone inside, worth an estimated £250 in total.
THEY have now become a regular feature in North Stifford. Members of the community, in their high visibility jackets, cleaning up the village. You get the feeling that they will scream if you mention "The Big Society". They made the nationals recently, when the council chided them for the type of rubbish they were collecting.
